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Short squeeze is starting in shares of KIO at $12.91, after crossing above the $12.903 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-05 10:00:04 - WOPRAI
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In the past 20 years (since 2005 with the introduction of RegSho), short selling has come under scrutiny as millions of retail investors have discovered what we have been highlighting since early 2005. Market makers abuse the “market maker’s exemption” and short excessive amounts of shares in your stock without locating, borrowing, paying the rebate or the interest rate to borrow. They are required to cover on the same trading day, and our data proves they do not.

The chart below shows “Daily Short Volume” in KKR Income Opportunities Fund (KIO), and includes both EXEMPT (market makers) and NON-EXEMPT (everyone else) short sales. We consolidate the tape of all 14 US stock exchanges and purchase the “sell short” trade identifier data directly from the exchanges on a daily basis. This complete view of the trading in your stock shows a vastly different picture than “Total Short Interest”, which only includes non-exempt short sales that have not been covered by the twice per month reporting date. Unfortunately, this misses the majority of the short selling.

This indicates that a Short Squeeze may be starting in shares of KKR Income Opportunities Fund at $12.91, after crossing above the $12.903 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-02-04109,906229,98047.7912.791,405,698
2025-02-03118,144210,34056.1712.621,490,977
2025-01-31235,587375,37362.7612.72,991,955
2025-01-30278,629445,62262.5312.633,519,084
2025-01-29176,733337,70252.3312.682,240,974
2025-01-28228,299337,00967.7412.692,897,114
2025-01-27241,985392,95361.5812.743,082,889
2025-01-24150,964233,71164.5913.011,964,042
2025-01-23129,998226,75857.3313.041,695,174
2025-01-22114,988168,41368.2813.081,504,043
2025-01-2169,082160,57543.0213.09904,283
2025-01-17101,178239,68042.2113.11,325,432
2025-01-1664,779229,66528.2113.18853,787
2025-01-1578,063175,85144.3913.311,039,019
2025-01-1421,92971,63830.6113.36292,971
2025-01-1347,548107,73444.1313.38636,192
2025-01-1054,271125,99443.0713.44729,402
2025-01-0851,10098,00352.1413.57693,427
2025-01-0752,055102,18650.9413.61708,469
2025-01-06125,413208,52960.1413.51,693,076
2025-01-03118,355165,62571.4613.481,595,425
2025-01-0247,522105,92244.8713.42637,745
2024-12-3165,518120,58454.3313.39877,286
2024-12-3053,529104,83151.0613.27710,330
2024-12-2756,285123,41345.6113.21743,525
2024-12-2664,975157,86541.1613.18856,371
2024-12-2417,94967,14526.7313.13235,670
2024-12-2356,382150,12537.5613.1738,604
2024-12-2037,259157,66023.6313.02485,112
2024-12-1947,409125,83637.6813.06619,162
2024-12-1859,580242,77224.5413.16784,073
2024-12-1716,682128,39512.9913.25221,037
2024-12-1645,120169,22526.6613.34601,901
2024-12-1353,009123,31642.9913.47714,031
2024-12-1240,21198,38040.8713.61547,272
2024-12-1133,40664,32451.9313.63455,324
2024-12-1035,99190,32239.8513.61489,838
 
Total53,048,328149,033,09835.5912.9684,295,309
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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